Obama YouTube Addresses Struggling To Find An Audience

Obama YouTube Addresses Struggling To Find An Audience
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President Obama may sit by a fireside in his weekly YouTube videos, but they haven't exactly caught fire.

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The most-viewed video, his very first weekly address on Jan. 24, 2009, has been seen more than 1.2 million times. But viewership has since decreased steadily.

Since May of last year, no video has had more than 100,000 views and most have been closer to 20,000, numbers far below the millions of his campaign videos. Some presidential watchers wonder if the time for the weekly radio address has passed.

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